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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1920

2,067 stories in Sydney's papers · page 52 of 104

Motor Car Fatality

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 July 1920 · page 9

On a charge of having malicionaly murdered Mrs. Ada Caroline Nowitzki, 51, of Myrtle-street city, on the night of July 19, a motor-driver named Joseph Gerald Bellotti, aged, 26, appeared at the Central Police…

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Armed Patrols. Shooting Epidemic in Cork. Many Persons Injured. Dr. Mannix Criticised. London, July 20

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 21 July 1920 · page 9

The "Doily News" gives prominence to the report of Archbishop Mannix's speech in New York, which it describes as "pernicious nonsense,…

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Suicide or Accident ? Coroner and Widow Differ

Evening News · Wednesday 21 July 1920 · page 1

A verdict of suicide was found by the District Coroner (Mr. H. Richardson Clark), who at Burwood to-day inquired into the circumstances in which thomas…

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Accident on Liner. London, July 19

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 July 1920 · page 11

The stop value of one of the Aqultania's bollers blew off, killed an engineer, and injured a stokehold hand. The Aquitanla, which was off the Irish coast on her way to America,…

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Railway Mishap. Parramatta Points Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 21 July 1920 · page 9

A great deal of delay was occasioned at Parramatta station yesterday by a horse box and carriage, leaving the rails at the Parramatta station. The horse box, with two racehorses…

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Collapse of Cutting. Two Men Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 22 July 1920 · page 7

ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--At a cutting at West Wellington, on the River Murray, yesterday, while a number of men were filling trucks with earth to run out on an embankment a…

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Accident on Steamer

Evening News · Thursday 22 July 1920 · page 1

William M;Nell, 31, a wharf laborer, was working in the bold of the steamer Port Hacking at No. 1 Wharf, Woolloomooloo to-day, when a bate of wool fell…

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Injured Policemen

The Propeller · Friday 23 July 1920 · page 3

Constable Gillies, of Kogarah, who was injured in a motor cycle collision in Sydney during the recent celebrations, has resumed duty…

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Body Floating in Sea. Young Woman Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 23 July 1920 · page 3

Upon arrival oft South Head yesterday the steamer Wonlora signalled that she had passed a body floating in the sea, about three miles off Waverley. The Captain Cook immediately…

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Cycle and Motor Two Boys Injured

Evening News · Friday 23 July 1920 · page 5

[?] between a motor car and a [?] in Elizabeth-street City, yesterday, resulted in two youths being injured…

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Car and Tricycle Collide Two Boys Injured

The Sun · Friday 23 July 1920 · page 5

A tricycle, owned by the King Edward Home for Dogs, and a motor car belonging to the Rose Bay me or garage, collided in Elizabeth street,…

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A Sportsman Shot Dead. Accidental Discharge of a Rifle

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 23 July 1920 · page 4

A young man named Edward Horan was getting through a fence near Mount Gambier (S.A.) with two companions last week, when a rifle carried…

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Vehicles Collide a Driver Injured Boy Passenger Runs

The Sun · Saturday 24 July 1920 · page 5

In Castlereagh-street late yesterday afternoon, Arthur Massey, cabman, of Copeland-street, Alexandria, was thrown from his cab, owing to a…

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Accident to Mr. H. M. Todhunter

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 24 July 1920 · page 6

The many friends of Mr. H. M. Todhunter, for years manager of the A.J.S. Bank (now Australian Bank of Commerce) at Parramatta will regret to hear that he met with n very serious and painful…

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Merrylands. Accident

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 24 July 1920 · page 5

Mr. Ernest Lyons a well known estate agent, met with an accident while driving along Merrylands-road on Wednesday. His sulky collided with a heavy cart, the…

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Fatal Scalding Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 24 July 1920 · page 12

WEST MAITLAND, Friday. -- Sheila Josephine Murphy (2). died in the Maitland Hospital late last night from the effects of a scal[?]ng accident. While her sister's back was turned the…

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Killed in Collision

Sunday Times · Sunday 25 July 1920 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Saturday.—Early this morning a goods train collided with another goods train standing at Officer. The guard on the stationary train…

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Footballers Injured

Sunday Times · Sunday 25 July 1920 · page 2

While playing Soccer at Wentworth Oval yesterday, Sydney Cullen 23, a carpenter, of 24 Australia-street, Newtown, fractured his right leg. He was taken to…

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Jockey Injured Concussion of the Brain

The Sun · Monday 26 July 1920 · page 5

M. Brooks, who received a fall off Coolabah in the Rosehill Hurdle Race on Saturday, is an inmate of Parramatta District Hospital. He is…

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Harbour Collision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 July 1920 · page 10

A collision occurred between the coastal steamer Jap, bound from Camden Haven, and the ferry steamer Kiamala, at about 8.30 p.m. on Saturday, off Dawes Point. The bulwarks and cabin of the latter vessel…

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